Building structure and joint therefor



March 22, 1938. G. F. KOTRBATY 2,

I BUILDING STRUCTURE AND JOINT THEREFOR I Original Filed Dec. 20, 1934 BY W i- 4 ATTORNEYS Patented Mar. 22, 1938 PATENT OFFIQE BUELDING STRUCTURE AND JOINT THEREFOR 7' Guy F. Kotrbaty, New

York, N. Y., assignor to Ferrocon Corporation, Bryn Mawr, Pa., a corporation of Delaware Original. application. December 20, 1934, Serial No. 758,345. Divided and'this application 00- tober 1, 1935, Serial No. 43,019

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This invention, relates, --to, improvements in building construction systems and elements therefor.

This application is a division of my application Serial No.:'758,34=5, filed December 20,1934.

This invention relates ,to joint constructions for floor and wall joints and parts thereof as well as to novel floor truss members and coacting parts. In addition, the novel improvements of the present invention include provision for the utilization of preformed panelling of various types with or without the use of associated structural hardenable plastic materials applied and bonded to supporting panel members.

A further feature of novelty of thepresent invention is the provision of improved floor supporting means associated with structural wall supports. l c

Another feature of novelty in the present invention is the provision of floor systems including truss members adapted to be secured to wall constructions of a variety of building systems. 7

These and other desirable features will be described in. the accompanying specification and illustrated in the drawing, certain preferred forms being shown by way of illustration only, for, since the underlying features may be incorporated in other specific structural assemblies, it is not intended to be limited to the ones here shown except as such limitations are clearly imposed by the appended claims. I

In the drawing like numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views, of which- Fig. 1 is a vertical elevation in cross-section of a building wall construction with associated floor and roof assemblies;

Fig. 2 is an elevation partly in detail, of a channel fastening member;

Fig. 3 is an elevation, partly in cross-section, of a wall connection showing the use of the members of Fig. 2; i

Fig. 4 is an end elevation of a novel floor and wall connecting member; and

Fig. 5 is an elevation of a wall system with floor connecting cap member associated therewith.

Referring now to Figs. 3, 4 and 5, the method of forming fioors, and of joining same to wall grids is shown. In this construction a wall grid cap or channel member no may be superposed over abutted grids iilli and locked thereto at desired intervals by means of bolts HM passing therethrough. These channel members are perforated as indicated at 102 and H03. The perforations or apertures 102 are adapted to receive threaded studs Bill of the various types of key members,

where used. The bolts 10! may be tapped into locking members 104 of any suitable metal and so conformed as to fit into the auxiliary keyways E05 of the composite stud members ill! of the type shown and described in my Patent No. 1,968,045 of July 31, 1934. These members are tapped, as indicated at N36, to receive the bolts Hit. It will be appreciated that upon screwing up the bolts ll]! in place the grids I00 will be securely locked to the grid cap channels 100, thus providing a positive mechanical bonding for the wall members in addition to the several keys in the composite stud members. In addition, the use of a grid cap construction of the type just described permits the positive alignment of wall members in a simple and efficient manner and with a minimum of parts required.

The locking members or auxiliary keyway plugs ltd; as shown in detail in Figs. 2 and 3, not only stiffen and reinforce composite stud members I ill at the sides thereof, but also impart a desired structural stiffness and strength to the composite stud assemblies at points of juncture or joining of the same with laterally supported structures such as floors. This is of particular importance in structures having continuous studding in the walls, and in which the floors are directly supported from the continuous studding.

Referring more specifically to Figs. 1 and 4, the method of forming an outside wall is shown. Here a base member 800 is supported on a basement foundation or wall section 8M. A truss member 8% is fitted therein and wall grids lull superposed on the member 800. An intermediate wall and floor supporting member 8H] is superposed on the first course of wall grids, as indicated, to receive the wall grids of the next floor. In addition, the intermediate fioor trusses are adapted to be secured thereto in a manner to be described more in detail hereinafter.

The member 800 comprises a channel section 802 with flanges 803, 804. The bottom flange 803 is continued to form a supporting member 805, having a lip or edge flange 806. The upper flange B04 is continued to form a grid-receiving channel designated generally by the numeral 801. In use the bottom 805 of the member is supported on the wall 8!, the lip 806 serving as a guide for adjusting the same. The truss members 900 are supported on the section 805 and secured to the channel member 802 by bolt and nut constructions designated generally by the numeral The wall channels I00 are fitted into the channel 801 and a combination wall-grid-cap member Bill is superposed thereon and secured thereto by means of a tiebolt 808 threaded at both ends to receive nuts 889. Floor truss members 990 are held in place in the channel members am by the usual stud and nut construction 90!. The member 8| is provided with a pair of opposed channels designated by the numerals 81 l and M2, respectively, adapted to fit over wall grids and to receive wall grids of a superposed floor. It will be appreciated that the wall and floors are simply and mechanically connected by means of a double channel member, which may be of rolled construction and is adapted to serve the triple function of a wallgrid-cap and a wall-grid-receiving channel, as well as an abutment and support for an improved floor truss member or any of my other patented floor systems.

The several wall and floor grid members are held together in a simple manner by bolts and nuts to form an improved building joint for walls and floors. Whiie continuous grid length bolts 80S, threaded at both ends, have been disclosed as tying one floor to another, it will, of course, be appreciated that the key members may be provided with plugs Sill! having threaded stud bolts till fitted therein, and that these will serve the same purpose. The members 885] and 8H] or 82% may be rolled of sheet of any suitable gauge and are easily manufactured, yet provide great structural strength, forming a combination of building parts in which they are associated or incorporated. A roof connecting member 820 may have a wall grid cap channel 32! and be provided with a facia plate 822 adapted to receive a roof or truss member 906. A special combination wall grid-cap-channel member and gridreceiving-channel, as well as a floor connection member, is shown in Fig. l, designated generally by the numeral 830. The wall grid-cap-channel 8 5i is separated from the grid-receiving channel 832 by an intermediate horizontal channel 933. This latter channel is adapted to receive truss members $86. Apertures 83 are provided with channel members to receive the several threaded stud members and permit them to be bolted in place.

The several structural members 806, 8H! and 828 are generally continuous sheet metal structures formed of metal of suitable thickness. In addition to functioning as structural supporting and aligning members in completed structures, these novel structural members also subserve the useful and important function of built-in assembling jigs, thereby assuring rapid and accurate assembly of building parts according to any predetermined architectural plan.

It will now be appreciated that there has been provided improved building construction and assembly members, including structural supporting and tying-in members. In addition, there have been provided novel mechanical means for keying and joining wall and floor members together in a mechanically tight joint in a simple and emcient manner, and in which method and system of assembly the various coacting parts are adapted to be abutted and quickly and permanently secured by suitable bolt and nut members.

The various features and combinations of structural parts have been shown herein by Way of illustration only, and it is intended to claim all parts as broadly novel, particularly in their new combinations insofar as the state of the art will allow.

What is claimed is:

1. A mechanical joint assembly connection comprising composite keyed stud members having auxiliary keyways at the sides thereof spaced to form longitudinal slots, metal filler and locking members conformed to the auxiliary keyways and locked therein and thereby, the said members having a plurality of bolt receiving tapped sockets within the edge slots of the auxiliary keyways.

2. A mechanical joint assembly for building structures, including, in combination, a composite structural stud member having web sections secured by locking means and having wall-panel securing sections formed at the edges of the Web sections, the said wall-panel securing sections having edge channels defining auxiliary halfkeyway sections with the said several web sections, the juxtaposed half-keyways forming externally slotted, auxiliary keyways, and auxiliary locking members disposed in the so-formed auxiliary keyways and conformed thereto and secured thereby, the said auxiliary locking members including tapped apertures for receiving bolts, and structural building members secured to the said composite stud members by the said bolts and coacting auxiliary locking members.

3. A composite structural member comprising sheet metal half-stud sections abutted together, securing means joining the abutted half-stud sections and forming a composite stud therewith; locking grooves at the sides of each half-stud section and forming lateral keyways with juxtaposed like elements; segmental half-round filler members in the lateral keyways and locked thereby, and means in the filler members for holding external structural members fixed to the composite studs.

4. A filler member for attaching external structural members to composite stud members having auxiliary keyways, comprising a half-round metal body of relatively short length, and provided with tapped holes aligned on the fiat side of the body.

GUY F. KO'IRBA'I'Y. 

